Annual review of cultural resource investigations by the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, fiscal year 1990

Abstract

Three major reports in FY90 resulted from cultural resource management activities of the SRARP. One comprises a synthesis of prehistoric archaeological investigations conducted on the SRS since 1973. These results were combined with data on historic period resources to produce an Archaeological Resource Managment Plan. This document, which includes the PMOA, specifies the extant knowledge of archaeological site distribution and significance on the SRS, details potential impacts resulting from SRS operations, and provides a predictive model for locating and evaluating these resources. The third management document contains the results of archaeological testing in the impact zone of the proposed Hazardous Waste/Mixed Waste Disposal Facility Over 12,000 acres of land on the SRS came under cultural resources review in FY90. This activity entailed 190 records searches, 60 field surveys resulting, in the recording of 25 new sites, and the mitigation of adverse effects to one prehistoric site (38AK157). Research conducted by SRARP was reported in four journal articles and four book chapters published during FY90. SRARP staff also presented research results at three professional meetings, and participated in two workshops on the cultural resource management activities of DOE. In the area of public education, the SRARP intensified its service activities in FY90. Volunteer excavations at the Tinker Creek site (38AK224) were resumed this year with the Augusta Archaeological Society and other avocational groups. Also provided were over two dozen public presentations and displays for museums, schools, and civic and church groups.

Intensive archaeological survey of the proposed Savannah River Ecology Laboratory Conference Center and Educational Facility, Savannah River Site, Aiken County, South Carolina

“…Comprehensive reviews of the environment and culture-history of the Upper Coastal Plain are provided in the recent syntheses of archaeological investigations on the Savannah River Site (SRS) (Brooks and Crass 1991;Sassaman et al 1990). This chapter is not intended to duplicate these works, but rather to provide a project-specific context for the design and implementation of the survey strategy and as a foundation for evaluating the results of survey.…”